Idea of Home PA

In this, his first novel, White attempts to "imagine a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefab suburb in California - where White grew up. From the vantage point of an off-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned. "The Idea of Home regurgitates a form of American madness into one of the cleverest, most lucid free-for-alls I can remember" - Paul Auster